Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03
w. = SUMMER RESORT.
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the hundreds of people who yearly spend
from one to two months in this, the most
delightful summer resort Of the Allegheny
Mountains, nave as yet arrived.
The Park during the past winter has,
under the efficient superintendentship Of
the Rev. John NJ. Davis, undergone some
varied and extended Improvements. New
drives nave been laid ont and the old ones
greatly improved. About one-third Of the
cottages have been remodeled and a large
number of new ones erected.
Mountain Lake Park is no longer an ex
pertinent but an accomplished fact. IL Is
a summer city protected from the grave
moral perils which surround our cities; a
summer home free from hay fever and
malaria, no case of which has ever been
known to originate in these glades, and no
malaria case exists here, except persons
who have already the germs planted In
their system, but a prolonged residence
NJ ger fails to eliminate the disease aud
tone mp broken down health.
No liquor OF any kind is to be had on the
grounds, but instead we find the best and
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phere which brings forth a gain Of flesh, a
buoyancy Of spirits, and a rapid develop
ment of strength the results OF which are
permanent.
This is the sixth season for Mountain
Lake, and if the number Of its summer In
habitants increases in the same ratio that
they did last year We may expect a larger
number of people than at Deer Park and
Oakland combined.
The Park, a spacious tract, Of eight
hundred actes, with a front of over a mile
on the b. & .. railroad was only a COM
paratively few years ago nothing but a
vast and somewhat broken plateau upon
the very summit OF the Allegheny Noun
tains, :, 700 feet above tide water. 1t lies
open Oh every side to sunshine and breeze,
and while being q mountain In the fullest
sense of the word, yet 1t escapes the dis
comforts. that are invariably attached to
places penned in by lofty mountain ranges.
The front of this beautiful natural park
is a broad, grassy meadow, through which
runs the little YoughiOgheny river, a live
" little mountain stream. From this
meadow the ground rises in a succession of
terraces, broken into by low, softly out
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~fresliug breezes to the very heart OF the
woodland. The shade is mosuy furnished
by the white oak.
The situation of the park Is elegant,
lying as it does between the villages OF
Deer Park on the east and Oakland on the
west, being three miles from the former and
only a mile and a halffrOm the latter. 1t Is
only l4g to Wheeling and 229 to Baltl-
more and is accessible from all points east
and west. 1t is only twelve hours ride
from New York, ten from Philadelphia
and seven from Baltimore, and within a
comparatively few hours ride from st.
Louis, Chicago, Columbus, CINCINNATI,
Wheeling and Pittsburg.
The accommodations this year will be
unusually good. There has been a rule III
the past that all persons desiring to buy
lots could do so, provided that they IN
tended to build. This restriction will this
year be taken off, and all persons desiring
lots can ret them and build when they
please. -,
Cottages can be rented at the low rate Of
$50 for two weeks; one room for two weeks
So. Rooms per day at the nominal prlce
of 30 cents.
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again open to the public. The obllglng
and popular proprietor, MIR. II. II. Van
Meter, will have charge OF 1t again tins
year. Mr.. Van Meter has had the hotel
during the winter entirely retitted and he
now presents a house equal TO any in the
country for the price and for real SOLID,
sensible comfort il can not be beat. Quite
u number from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
and Wheeling have engaged rooms. a
crOquet and lawn tennis grounds are IN
course of construction.
| EThe programme for the season of 1887
begins with what has been termed camp
meeting" commencing July 9Th clos
ing July 18th, inclusive.
DIR. DOugan Clark. Oi Indiana, and
David Updegratl, of Ohio, assisted by
other leaders, prominent among whom Will
he Mr.. Stephen Merritt, of New York city,
are to conduct a series nj evangelistlc
services, On the plan OF the Ocean Grove
exercises, which have proved such n sue
cess. These are followed from July 10Th
to 18th, inclusive, by the Interstate Con
vention of the WOman's Christian State
Convention, which brings together q rep
resentatiye body of Christian ladies Of the
land, from every State in the Union.
The Mountain Lake Park Sunday School
Assembly takes place from August I'd to
18th, and is conducted like those Of Chau-
tauuua-summer schools of amateur pho
Biography, languages, elocution, art and
botany.
A Normal kindergarten has been ar
ranged for the season. The rates for tut
ton TO all these schools are very reason
able.
Rev. ID. Cleveland, of Philadelphia; DR..
John Riley Thompson, OF New York, for
merly President OF the University of Viz
yinia; Rt. Rev. Bishop Peterkin, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of West Viz
ginia; Prof. Ford, Elocutionist, OF New
York City; Rev. c. 7. Marsden, ID. D., of
New York. formerly Of Wheeling, and a
number of other noted lecturers, have al
ready been announced for the season.
The following people are already on the
grounds:
The Allegheny House which was pre-
sided over last year by Mrs, l.. t. Ballard,
will be in charge OF Mrs. J. H. Earlougher,
who will also conduct The FallOn Cot
tage" again this year.
Mrs. Nancy Blake and her two daughters
from Baltimore are here.
A. H. Bowman and family, of Rowles-
burgh, W. Va, are here. Mr.. Bowman is
putting up a large and handsome cottage.
Miss NJ. A. S. Elliott and part of the
family are here from Baltimore, Md.
Prof. Armstrong and his two sisters,
from Wheeling, have been here for a week
past.
Rev. A. S. Hanks cottage will be &C.
cupied by Miss Hubbard, who will teach
drawing.
Mrs. r. HornbroOke, also her daughter,
Mrs. Robt. Luke and her three children,
of Wheeling, are in their cottage.
Mrs. Z. Howe, and Rowlesburg, W.
Va, are here.
Mrs. A. J. Herring, OF Baltimore, Miss
Sarah E. Harris, Franklin, Va, Rev.
Joseph Lee, Clarksburg, W. Va, Rev. c.
P. Masden and family, of New York,
Mrs. Isaiah Warren, of Wheeling, and her
son Ollie, are occupying Miss Sallie
Maholin's cottage.